Strange Country Ep. 181: Eartha Kitt

Kelly and Beth speak our truth each week on Strange Country and it feels so good. It may take us a while, meandering through details of our lives as mothers, women in our 40s, and librarians, but we get there eventually, dear Dashhounds. Thanks for listening and supporting that journey each week. This week we give honor to the podcast space that let's us speak our truth and wish singer and actress Eartha Kitt,could have had her own podcast. Instead she had to eat clam bisque with the fancy-pants Doers of the White House, and then speak her mind about Vietnam and the real reason behind crime in America. And then watch her career flounder for years thanks to CIA gossip gatherers, and racists. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite Your Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North,_South_Carolina Biography.com Editors. Eartha Kitt Biography. A&E Television Network. September 15, 2020. https://www.biography.com/musician/eartha-kitt Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Eartha Kitt". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Jan. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eartha-Kitt. Accessed 16 February 2021. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eartha-Kitt Mezzack, Janet. Without Manners You Are Nothing": Ladybird Johnson, Eartha Kitt, and the Women Doers' Luncheon of January 18, 1968. Gonzaga University School of Law. Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol. 20, No.4, Modern First Ladies White House Organization (Fall 1990), pp.745-760. Accessed via jstor. 2/15/2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/claudia-alta-taylor-lady-bird-johnson/